DC shoes did a great job of compiling their rider's North Shore season highlights into a little mini-movie, complete with a Hello-kitty-esque title: SURF WAVE VIDEO.

Some choice clips supplied their rookie and veteran roster, including Balaram Stack, Taylor Clark, Dillon Perillo, ReefMcintosh, and Mark Healey.

Balaram's pipe canon to slow-rotation air-reo was pretty damn impressive.

With a week left in the first round of the Nike Chosen Crew Video Contest the competition is as heavy as can be. All of the crews are busy uploading their best edits and photos in hopes of creating enough hype to move unto the second round. Recently, a crew out of Lake Tahoe, California has been making waves with their last-minute popularity surge.

Tahoe Chosen is a crew of three shredders who are all about putting down sick tricks and filming with their friends. We caught up with the trio to get the down-low on what their crew is all about.

Riders:
Scottie "Banger" Hoffman
Joanna "PNut" Dzierzawski
Nick Geisen- Filmer

STYLE: Park, Urban, Backcountry
BUZZ: 360 Likes, 26 Comments



Where are you guys from and how many years have you been snowboarding?
We are from South Lake Tahoe, California and we've been snowboarding over 10 years. -Scottie Banger Hoffman

How did you come up with your Chosen Crew's name: Tahoe Chosen?
It's the perfect name, "Tahoe Chosen". We are the chosen crew, and we are from Tahoe. Simple as that. -Scottie Banger Hoffman

How long have you been a Crew and how did you guys form?
We have been a crew for about a week. We always shredded the same mountain, but now because of this contest, we joined together more closely and created a perfect bond.-Scottie Banger Hoffman

We recently formed. Joanna hooked all of us up. It's great riding with dedicated, rad people. -John Chevallier

What are you looking to get out of the Nike Chosen Contest?
I'm looking to have fun and try something new. Doing this contest is very different from what I normally do. Its nice to create new friendships with other riders.-Scottie Banger Hoffman

Do you have any strategies for filming?
Our strategy is to film unique features. Because this season we don't have much snow, we want to document a high level of tree and rock riding.-Scottie Banger Hoffman

What is your favorite part about snowboarding?
My favorite part of snowboarding is putting all worries aside and having fun with my friends.- Scottie Banger Hoffman

What is your favorite snowboard film?
Any Mac Dawg film. - Scottie Banger Hoffman

After Lame or ANYTHING Travis Parker does.- John Chevallier

If Chosen, what do will your crew do to celebrate?
If chosen, to celebrate I would do the YMCA dance.- Scottie Banger Hoffman

Beers, High Fives & Hugs.- John Chevallier

What pro would you most like to live like and why?
I would most likely live like Jonah Owen, always hungry for filming and pushing snowboarding to the next level. That is his life. -Scottie Banger Hoffman

Describe a perfect day with your crew.
Wake up, everyone comes to my house for coffee and breakfast burritos. We go to the mountain. Film in the park and in the trees. Hopefully there is powder and we can send some pillows. Document the whole day on film. Come back home and watch all the footy. Do it all again the next day. -Scottie Banger Hoffman

Anything else you want to say about your crew?
We love snowboarding. Thank you.- Scottie Banger Hoffman

You haven't seen snowboarding's heart until you've seen Tahoe Chosen. -John Chevallier

Head to Tahoe Chosen's page to help with their quest to be Nike's Chosen.

The world's best riders battled it out and pushed the progression of snowboarding this week in Nelson, B.C during the Red Bull Supernatural.

Out of a field of 18, Travis Rice came out on top proving he is the best all around snowboarder on the planet. Read on for an in- depth view of the contest from Snowboarder Mag's Editor- in-Chief.

Words: Pat Bridges

There are those rare tipping points that only come along so often where everyone realizes that the game has changed. In snowboarding, Ingemar Beckman's Richter Riksgransen method, Johan's TB5 part, and America's sweep of the Olympic podium in Salt Lake City are but a few of these watershed moments. In a seven day period that saw the legitimate debut of a triple cork in competition and the first five-peat in the X Games halfpipe, undoubtedly the most crucial occurrence for real riders took place in the high alpine above a subdued town in the interior of British Columbia.

The 2012 Red Bull Supernatural was spawned from the multi-talented mind of two-time X Games gold medalist and current SNOWBOARDER and Transworld Rider Of The Year Travis Rice. Building upon Travis's endeavor to bring freeriding to the forefront that began with The Natural Selection and continued to the next level with The Art Of Flight media blitz, Supernatural is a one of a kind event two years in the making. With Supernatural, Rice intends to bring a new side of snowboarding, the world of film and freeriding, to the masses. With the involvement of Red Bull and NBC, the inaugural Supernatural is poised to become the ultimate counterpoint to one-sided saccharine snowboarding showcases like the X Games and Olympics, which currently monopolize the mainstream landscape.

While most riders would be content to sit back and rest on the accolades accompanying a season like Rice is coming off of, trust me when I say that Supernatural is much more of a passion project for the protagonist of The Art Of Flight than anything else he has ever been involved in. From finding the ultimate venue and securing resources, to championing the Supernatural cause in the press, the only part of this event Rice has left to chance is the weather which is why he chose Nelson, British Columbia's Baldface Lodge to hedge his bets.



Head here for the rest of this Snowboarder Mag exclusive.

How do you capture the true essence of a skateboarding legend who brought us the MegaRamp, pulled a 360 over the Great Wall of China, launched into a vert ramp from a helicopter, or dropped from the Hard Rock Hotel Guitar 82-feet above the Vegas Strip? Not sure, but we'll get our chance to find out how director Jacob Rosenberg portrays Danny Way in the new feature-length documentary "Waiting for Lightning." The highly anticipated film about the life of pioneering skateboarder Danny Way will make its debut at the SWSW Film and music fest in March.

Rosenberg and his team at Bandito Brothers have been hard at work on the biopic of Way's 20-year skate career and they recently released a preview of what fans can expect to see.



Rosenberg dropped out of high school to learn filmmaking from Plan B co-founder, the late Mike Ternasky, on landmark 1990s skate films such as "Questionable," "Virtual Reality" and "Second Hand Smoke," which featured a young Way. "His story allows us to tell a larger story about skateboarding," said Rosenberg in a release from Bandito Brothers.

The new documentary will have plenty of early teenage photos, video and audio of Way along with more recent footage and interviews from him and other legends like Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Travis Pastrana, Mat Hoffman, Ken Block and Rob Dyrdek.

In addition to the trailer for the film, they released a 2 1/2 minute edit with no skateboarding footage instead a cast of Way's most influential people in his life attempting to describe Way in one word.

From the lens of the very talented and very Australian human, Riley Blakeway comes his latest in a string of slightly off-beat yet very well executed short films and rip clips, a short film/documentary THOM- A Portrait of Modern Youth .

The film is about the existence of another Australian human being, 19 year old Thom Pringle, a budding surf star cut from a slightly more interesting cloth.

In the words of Mr. Blakeway: "A short, experimental documentary piece about a 19 year old teen growing up in Australia- Exploring the mind of modern youth and Generation Y."

Riley's inspiration for the film came from a 70's American documentary about a boy raised by hippies in the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco.

Here she is, in her glory below, and also check out this digi-zine thing he crafted to accompany the project.



THOM - A PORTRAIT OF MODERN YOUTH from Riley Blakeway on Vimeo.